Feb 9th 2010
NASA remains vulnerable to disruptions in its information technology network. NASA has not always implemented sufficient controls to protect information and systems supporting its mission directorates.
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Feb 3rd 2010
Of all the questions being asked about the president's budget proposal, one of the biggest is how the heck they're going to get through it all before October. Federal News Radio learns why feds should stop worrying and learn to embrace the budget. Repeat over and over, "it's just a proposal, it's just a proposal."
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Feb 2nd 2010
The budget for FY 2011 would create sweeping changes to parts of the agency.
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Daily Debrief
Feb 2nd 2010
NSF, NIST and Energy continue to receive increases on way to doubling budget by 2017. Overall, R&D across government increases only slightly. OSTP will create a dashboard to measure effectiveness of federal R&D efforts.
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Feb 1st 2010
Prof. Steve Squyres, one of the original program managers for the rover program, explains more.
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Feb 1st 2010
Cheers to U.S. Military for its splendid and efficient performance in Haiti over the past few weeks. As one Australian journalist said " the U.S.the US is still delivering the bulk of the food and drinking water needed, though the various NGO organisations occupy the bulk of the media coverage...
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Lurita Doan
Jan 25th 2010
The White House has decided to begin funding private companies to carry NASA astronauts into space.
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Jan 20th 2010
With Congress returning to work this week, the chairman of the House panel that oversees science and technology agencies and programs maps out an ambitious agenda for the second session of the 111th Congress. And: will there be a change in the leadership of the House Science and Technology Committee a year from now?
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Jan 19th 2010
This week, host John Gilroy chats with Lewis Shepherd of Microsoft about challenges in 2010.
Jan. 19, 2010
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Jan 12th 2010
By HOLBROOK MOHR
Associated Press Writer
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A former high-ranking NASA official pleaded not guilty Monday to nine federal chargesaccusing him of steering a $600,000 contract to Mississippi State University, a client of his consulting firm...
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Jan 7th 2010
NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better understanding of Earth's formation or perhaps the origin of life on our planet.
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Dec 28th 2009
NASA's Badri Younes talks about how much has changed over the past ten years.
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Dec 18th 2009
Space food.. It's come a long way from "tubes and cubes," but there's some special planning involved in getting a turkey dinner with dressing into space.
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Dec 18th 2009
All over the Federal government, IT experts and their bosses continue the search for new information and wisdom on the topic of cloud computing. On Thursday, attendees at an industry breakfast got a panel discussion from some of the top names in federal cloud computing.
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Dec 10th 2009
FederalNewsRadio has learned budget passback language also calls for alternative analyses for major IT projects in 2012. NASA, DISA are among the agencies out in front in using this technology. Both plan to share what they've learned, and best practices, with other agencies.
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